How the fuck did that happen? How heroic really were Wright Patman and other segregationist Democrats who fought against corporate power until the changing of the Democratic guard in the 1970s? How did Trump make hate taste so great to so many? And what are our views of the horrific near future and how we might combat it?

Remember: please try to not kill your relatives at Thanksgiving, and please send us reader questions for This is Fine, 1.2: argumentum ad populum, where we say populism out loud a thousand times until it becomes a meaningless collection of syllables.

Welcome to This is Fine, a podcast for the Age of Trump. Your intrepid hosts, Jeremy Reff and Jerry Vinokurov, will, on a quasi-regular basis, do their best to talk you through the American hellscape. Along the way, we’ll have interviews with some very interesting people doing very-interesting-people-things and possibly lighthearted diversions into popular culture. Stick with us and watch this space for updates!